bismillah,

okay, this is a longgggg due update. shall i start from day 1?

kids are hard to deal with. you miss them when you are far away, but you get really annoyed when they pester you 24/7. or, when they don't listen to you.

day 1 was alhamdulillah, fun. but i didn't start anything until day 2. i woke up early, probably due to jet lag. at around 5, i heard someone using the bathroom. it turned out to be muzakkir, kid #1. when fajr came, i asked him to pray with me. to encourage him, i told him to be the imam and i pretended to follow him.

nothing has changed in his reading from the last time i left him. after prayers, i read quran outloud in front of him, to make him used to it. he was then eager to join me.

he still doesnt know how to read the quran, eventhough he does memorize short surahs. which was a hugeee shock for me. i really didn't know he still can't read. so i asked him to only read alfatihah (by memory), while i point the script accordingly to him. he mispronounce many words, but that is okay, since he doesnt fully speak yet. so i corrected some pronunciations(not even makhrajs or tajwid, just trying to get the correct english-letters-sound out of him).

and even for the days after that, these were the only things i did with him. read quran aloud in front him to get him to join me, asks him to read alfatihah by memory while i point, and correct his pronunciation.

anyways, my short experience with him shows that yes, it is true that we can teach kids to memorize quran even before they speak properly, and even before they could read the quran. well, many kids memorize alfatihah and annas before they could even read right? or atleast the du'a before eating.

those simple prayers that kids memorize, aren't they in arabic too?so don't wait for your kids to be able to read to only then teach them hifzulquran.

wallahua'lam,
ummu ibrahim...